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Social Work Processes (with InfoTrac)

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ISBN-10: 0534365590

ISBN-13: 9780534365592

Edition: 7th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Burt Galaway, Beulah Compton, Barry Cournoyer

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Compton and Galaway's highly respected SOCIAL WORK PROCESSES has long set the standard for social work practice texts. Continuing its strong emphasis upon process and collaborative partnerships between social workers and clients, the text incorporates systems and ecological perspectives, advocacy, case management, and group and community work. The book's conceptual framework supports, encourages, and organizes skill development and skill teaching in a diversity of settings and client populations. Dr. Barry R. Cournoyer updates this comprehensive Seventh Edition by including extensive use of Web-based resources and evidence-based exercises within its process -oriented perspective.
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Book details

List price: $199.95
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 8/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442

Dr. Cournoyer has been a social work practitioner for more than 40 years and a university teacher for more than 35 years. He received his M.S.S.W. degree from the University of Tennessee and the D.S.W. degree from the University of Utah. He is Emeritus Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work, where he taught social work practice courses. A former Associate Dean with the School, he remains interested in student learning assessment and quality improvement activities in social work education. In addition to this sixth edition of THE SOCIAL WORK SKILLS WORKBOOK, he co-authored THE SOCIAL WORK PORTFOLIO and the Seventh Edition of SOCIAL WORK PROCESSES--all published by…    

Context for Deciding What to Do
Introduction
The Ecosystem Perspective and the Use of Knowledge
Problem-Solving: A Process for Social Work Practice
Client-Worker Partnership
Authority for Social Work Practice
Ethical Practice
Relationship in Social Work Practice
Tools for Deciding What to Do
Engaging Potential Clients
Communicating Across Cultures
Assessment
The Service Agreement
Tools for Doing the Decided
Intervention Methods to Mobilize Client Power
Case Management and Formal Social Support
Mobilizing Informal Social Support
Building Helping Communities
Teamwork for Social Work Practice
Evaluating Practice
Endings in Social Work
Self Care
Additional Readings
Mrs. Warren's Profession
The Strengths Perspective: Principles and Practices
The House on Sixth Street
An Ecosystemic Approach to Assessment
Social Work and the Medicine Wheel Framework
The Birky Family
The Stover Family
Variations on the Problem-Solving Theme
Betty Smith
The Record of Change: Client-Focused Recording
Four Pennies to my Name: What It's Like on Welfare
Approach and Companionship in the Engagement Process
Basic Communications Skills for Work with Groups
A Framework for Establishing Social Work Relationships Across Racial/Ethnic Lines
Family Group Decision Making
The Clinical Utility of Models and Methods of Assessment in Managed Care
A Brief Solution-Focused Practice Model
Goal Setting With Biological Families
Action as a Vehicle for Promoting Competence
The Social Work Process of Social Care Planning
Social Work, Social Care, Care Management, and User Involvement
Self-Help in African American Communities: A Historical Review
Does My Intervention Make a Difference? Single System Research
Termination in Context
Burnout: An Occupational Hazard for Social Workers
Leonard Timms
The Omar Family